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...Princeton, No. 16 Santa Clara, and Fordham. While Harvard did not always play up to expectations, junior co-captain Bret Voith addressed the importance of the team’s first win.“I would not say I’m satisfied, because we could have played better,” he said. “But it was great to get that first win in our first game [at the tournament].”The Crimson struggled in particular on the defensive side, yielding 52 goals over the weekend as it faced a number of talented opponents...
...against the Gamecocks (8-1), the Crimson won its first set of the weekend and came close to grabbing two others with sets of 25-21, 21-25, 25-22, 25-12. Although Harvard held substantial leads at various points throughout the match, the Gamecocks ultimately emerged the better team with a dominant performance in the fourth set.The challenge of playing the SEC team was clear to Durwood.“It’s a much faster pace of the game,” Durwood said. “We dug harder hit balls and played against bigger blockers...
...Harvard line caused quite considerable head-scratching in fashion and academic circles when it was announced in August. Naturally, there was snickering on Yale student websites, but that subsided after Harvard asserted that the money was going to fund scholarships for low-income students. What better reason to monetize its élite status than to admit students from outside the élite...
Hopkin, the subtle debater, conceded that today's factory farming practices are "unconscionable, and should not be permitted." Instead, he wondered whether better farming techniques could ever create a world in which eating meat was ethical. He advocated an approach to animal rights that focused on the social contract instead of utilitarianism, and on leveraging consumer power to work for better farming practices instead of abstaining from eating meat...
...market will get a boost later this year from the anticipated IPOs of companies such as cable-TV service provider Digital Entertainment Network, which has exposure to increasingly wealthy Indian consumers. "We're waiting for consumption-oriented companies to list," says the Mumbai banker, "because they will be a better play on the India growth story than the companies we've seen so far, which came in mainly because they were cash-strapped...